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Facebook Intros Android Smartphone Makeover

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday April 4, 2013 @ 1:28pm PDTTags: Facebook, Facebook Home, Mark Zuckerberg

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The software-only adaptation will “turn your Android phone into a great social device,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says during an event today’s at the company’s HQ. Facebook Home transforms the look and feel of the operating system. For example, it enables the lock screen to display updates from Facebook friends as they come in. The software also allows people to send and receive texts while using other phone functions. Home will be available for free beginning April 12 through the Google Play online app store. It initially will work on five top-end smartphones from HTC and Samsung. Each month thereafter, Facebook plans to expand Home compatibility to additional phones. HTC also announced the HTC First, a Facebook Home-optimized smartphone for the AT&T network that will be available April 12 for $99.99.  Zuckerberg, who took no questions during today’s announcement, didn’t say whether Facebook will adapt its software for Apple, Microsoft and Blackberry phones. Samsung, the biggest Android smartphone maker, recently debuted its latest flagship, the Galaxy S4, which is among the first five models that will be compatible with Facebook Home. Facebook shares jumped 2.8% to about $27 in afternoon trading. Google shares dropped about 1.6% to a little under $794. You can watch an archived version of the presentation here.

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Facebook Stock Hit Shows It’s In A “Tough Cycle” Mark Zuckerberg Says: Video

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Thursday October 4, 2012 @ 10:15am PDTTags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Matt Lauer

It would be disingenuous for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to ignore the 42.6% decline in his company’s stock price since it went public in May. But on the day when Facebook says it recorded its 1 billionth user, Zuckerberg remains upbeat — and denies that he’s over his … Read More »

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Does Wall Street Believe Facebook Has Been Punished Enough?

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday September 5, 2012 @ 12:12pm PDTTags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

It’s still too early to say that definitively. But it’s possible as the social media company’s shares, which hit a record low yesterday, are up 4.6% in mid-afternoon trading. Investors seem to be responding to the announcement … Read More »

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NBC Olympic Coverage Mistakes Jesse Eisenberg For Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Sunday August 12, 2012 @ 4:01pm PDTTags: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Network

Another NBC Olympic gaffe. Cameras for the Numbskull Broadcasting Company spotted actor Jesse Eisenberg sitting in the audience during the USA vs Spain gold medal basketball game. Then a commentator is caught on video identifying The Social Network star as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, adding: “Every executive … Read More »

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Sheryl Sandberg Joins Facebook Board

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday June 25, 2012 @ 2:56pm PDTTags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg

Sheryl Sandberg Facebook BoardOdd that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg didn’t think of this a few months ago, before his company went public with its all-male board. But after enduring attacks from women’s rights groups led by UltraViolet, … Read More »

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Facebook Boosts Share Offering Price, Potentially Valuing Company At $104B

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Tuesday May 15, 2012 @ 5:03am PDTTags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

Investors are still infatuated with all things tech: Facebook’s upcoming initial public offering — expected to take place on Friday — is already oversubscribed following executives’ road show to gin up interest among institutional investors. And this morning the company … Read More »

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Alleged Facebook Co-Creator Appeals Columbia’s ‘Social Network’ Court Win

By DOMINIC PATTEN | Monday May 14, 2012 @ 12:42pm PDTTags: Columbia Pictures, Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, The Social Network

Facebook Lawsuit Columbia PicturesDespite a dismissal from a Massachusetts judge, self-proclaimed Facebook co-creator Aaron Greenspan is not giving up his battle against Columbia Pictures and Random House. Greenspan claims he was denied his rightful place in the Facebook saga by being left out of The Social Network and by having his name changed in Ben Mezrich’s The Accidental Billionaires. Greenspan filed an appeal on May 10 against the studio, the publisher and Mezrich in his copyright infringement, fraud and “defamation by omission” case. The filing comes just a few days before Facebook’s expected $96 billion IPO and a day after Judge Robert Collings dismissed all of the former Harvard student’s claims. The book Accidental Billionaires was the basis for the screenplay Aaron Sorkin wrote for the 2010 Columbia film about the creation of Facebook; Sorkin won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay. Greenspan has long claimed he came up with “The Face Book” in September 2003, months before his classmate Mark Zuckerberg did. Zuckerberg is not named as a defendant. Read More »

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Facebook Pays $1B For Instagram

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Monday April 9, 2012 @ 11:17am PDTTags: Facebook, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook Buys InstagramThe cash and stock deal is the biggest to date for the social network colossus, and gives it one of the most popular smartphone photo sharing apps. After just two years, Instagram has about 30M users, almost all … Read More »

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Facebook IPO Is “A Huge Risk” Investor Says: Video

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday March 28, 2012 @ 10:58am PDTTags: Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg

When’s the last time you heard a venture capitalist say that when companies go public they begin “a Bataan death march,” and engage in a “manifestly” unfair game that’s reminiscent of organized crime? Well, those are a few of the provocative comments that Elevation Partners co-founder Roger McNamee — a … Read More »

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Facebook Secrets In Filing For $5B IPO

By DAVID LIEBERMAN, Executive Editor | Wednesday February 1, 2012 @ 2:16pm PSTTags: Facebook, IPO, Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook IPOThe Facebook filing values Mark Zuckerberg stake at $16 billion. Facebook said its 27-year-old founder and CEO owns more than a  quarter of the company, or roughly 534 million shares. Those are just some of the numbers in the SEC filing to issue stock that … Read More »

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Netflix, Hulu, Others Ink Deals That Will Fold Entertainment Into Facebook

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday September 22, 2011 @ 3:30pm PDTTags: Facebook, Hulu, Mark Zuckerberg, Netflix, Reed Hastings

Facebook’s latest revamp has big implications for entertainment. At the company’s developer conference f8 today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the broader purpose of the site’s recently unveiled “ticker” feature as well as a new one called Timeline, and announced a slew of content deals that will allow users to latch on to the TV shows, movies and music that their friends are enjoying. The “open graph” media apps — which will include Hulu, Netflix, Spotify and IMDb – will allow users to launch a window from the ticker or Timeline to watch TV and movie content, or listen to songs their friends have just listened to. However, as Netflix can’t seem to catch a break lately, there are complications: The company’s embattled CEO, Reed Hastings, also took the stage at f8 to talk about the Netflix integration and pointed out that current U.S. law prevents Netflix users from connecting the service to their Facebook account. Users in all the company’s other territories have the go-ahead, though. The Netflix blog posted a plea for its U.S. customers to ask Congress to reverse a law that “creates some confusion over our ability to let U.S. members automatically share the television shows and movies they watch with their friends on Facebook.” Read More »

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Oprah Only Hollywood Star At Camp Allen

By NIKKI FINKE, Editor in Chief | Tuesday July 5, 2011 @ 10:25pm PDTTags: Bill Gates, King Abdullah II, Mark Zuckerberg, Oprah Winfrey

Hollywood arrived at the annual Allen & Co investment conference in Sun Valley today — but I don’t know why. It’ll be a showbiz snorefest. Because only ”A Conversation With Oprah Winfrey” is scheduled and no one is interested unless she comes clean about how … Read More »

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DreamWorks Enters WikiLeaks Movie Sweepstakes, Buying Two Major Books

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday March 1, 2011 @ 5:25pm PSTTags: Aaron Sorkin, Alex Gibney, Ben Mezrich, Bill Keller, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, David Leigh, Facebook, Holly Bario, Jesse Eisenberg, Julian Assange, Luke Harding, Marc Shmuger, Mark Boal, Mark Sourian, Mark Zuckerberg, Martin Luther King, Megan Ellison, Movie Deals, Movies, Paul Greengrass, Raffi Khatchadourian, Scott Rudin, Stacey Snider, Steven Spielberg, The Guardian, The Social Network, Wikileaks
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EXCLUSIVE: DreamWorks has officially entered the derby to turn the story of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks into a feature film. The studio has acquired rights to two books by pivotal players in the WikiLeaks drama. DreamWorks has secured screen rights … Read More »

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